Jason Perlow

Jason Perlow, Sr. Technology Editor at ZDNet is a technologist with over two decades of experience with integrating large heterogeneous multi-vendor computing environments in Fortune 500 companies. Jason is currently a Technical Architect C…onsultant at Dimension Data. His expressed views do not necessarily represent those of his employer.

My Full-Time Employer is Dimension Data. I write as a freelancer for ZDNet. The postings and opinions on this blog are my own and don't necessarily represent Dimension Data positions, strategies or opinions. Other than Microsoft, I own no investments or direct financial instruments in the companies I write about.

Yesterday, OLPC project founder Nicholas Negroponte indicated that their next generation XO-2 will almost certainly eschew it's current x86-based design and move towards one that is based on the ARM, the most common embedded RISC architecture in the world. It's used in over a billion cell phones and smartphones, including the iPhone and the BlackBerry, and is licensed for use in embedded CPUs produced by Texas Instruments, Marvell, Broadcom, nVidia, Samsung, and FreeScale, among others.

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